Did You Know?

Ryan Giggs is the only Premier League player to score 100 goals without scoring a hat-trick.

While Zlatan Ibrahimovich’s youth team was 4-0 down, he came in as a substitute and scored 8 goals.

Zinedine Zidane was never caught in offside position in his whole career.

Philip Lahm has never got a red card inspite of being a defender.

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Interesting Football Facts

Neil Armstrong originally wanted to take a football to the moon – but NASA deemed it to be un-American.

The first black football player was Arthur Wharton in the 1800s.

The highest scoring game was clocked 149-0. Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, a team from Madagascar scored their own goals. They did it as a form of protest for the unfair decision by referee in the previous game.

The maximum number of goals scored by one player in a single Football match was 16. It was scored by Stephan Stanis (France) playing for Racing Club de Lens in December 1942.